"The word inspire comes from two Latin words: in (in) and spirare (to breathe). Spirare, in turn, is related to the Latin spirit. Thus, the word inspire was used in older times to indicate that someone was "breathing in spirit," or drawing in divine energy."

"The universal principle of etymology in alllanguages: words are carried over from bodiesand from the properties of bodiesto express the things of the mind and spirit.The order of ideas must followthe order of things."~Giambattista Vico

In the time since we last shared a few words, creativity has me trying on a bunch of new hats.Let me share with you now just one of the colorful examples with this evolution of a poem.

While in a bit of a stasis, I wanted to move forward with the creative flow. Finding myself with an opportunity to explore, the following began to happen: Pen in hand, I grab a post-it note and a few words in the style of haiku come up in response to my curiosity about the stillness I'm currently experiencing.

Cycles go dormantGrowth is imperceptible.Hibernation mode.

The rain falls mid week, sandwiched between sweltering heat.

^^ That sentence alone, when examined etymologically, fascinates me.

I only search for the etymology of origins for some words, on some occasions.This particular occasion,I was searching for the roots of a feeling of slowed growth.

The poem had already organically arrived, and I was looking to substitute the word stagnant that had first come in to be 'place filler' until I could search for the correct word.

Stagnant was not quite right. As that implied decay and inability to respond.I am not in a place of stagnancy, more of a receptive and aware inaction.So yes, the dormant cycle fits much more gracefully ~and bonus; it was also two syllables! =haiku

I had chosen the word that felt right, updated the title of this particular post, typed up the revised poem, and proceeded to move on from there.

That is when the haiku-inspired tradition of recognizing the season (and elements -i.e., rain) around me followed. Thus the weather update arrives.

I wonder to myself how the last few minutes of etymology synthesized to become that sentence.~Because it wasn't actually sweltering last weekend, and since next weekend has yet to arrive, I truly can't predict beyond the weather forecasts just how sweltering it may or may not be.It is predicted to be very hot this weekend anyway, and once the actual 'midweek' observation arrived, book-ending the (actual) rain with the 'sandwiched between' metaphor felt 'cyclical', so I went with it. ~Cycles being a choice word to use for juxtaposition.Looking to further describe the heat,I think even I began to swelter.In retrospection, that rising heat now appears to have emerged from that place of abeyance this entire post had originated from.

I began to notice how the words were arriving, and I was then checking in on the motivation behind the words that appeared.By searching for the word's origins.Not only etymologically, but genuinely.From within my frame of reference, and from my current energetic vibe, so to speak.

That is why the sentence became a bit of a fascination to me, you see.It clued me in to all of the keywords that the etymology brought to the surface for me to examine.In essence, I was observing the fertilizing of a poem.

From there, I look back upon the sentence that prompted me into this extended illustration of a process:

The rain falls mid week, sandwiched between sweltering heat.

I would like to revise that to become a continuation of the opening haiku by altering the irrelevant word 'sandwiched' to fewer syllables, and chose to go the easy route with the word 'in' as substitute..

And thus, I find myself no longer inactive, but smack dab in the middle of the poetic stream/cycle once more.Etymology is now burning off the initial overall feeling of dormancy and inaction, and the slow burn and appearance of death in the sweltering heat gives birth to a new page in a journal of a life.

The rain falls midweek,in between sweltering heat.

The last five syllables will encompass the entirety of this process.effectively completing the cycle.

And there we have it; a two verse poem in an abstract style of haiku is formed.